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Access Agriculture Panorama
No. 12 - July 2021 |
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Welcome to our monthly news update with
‘Access Agriculture Panorama’
This monthly e-newsletter gives a bird’s eye view of all the exciting updates from Access Agriculture, a world-leading organisation for quality agricultural training videos in international and local languages, working across the Global South.
The links to different language versions are given below each section.. |
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| Access Agriculture platform now in Portuguese |
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Based on demand from its Lusophone user community across the Global South, Access Agriculture has launched a Portuguese-language version of its video-sharing platform ( www.accessagriculture.org/pt). The platform is already available in Bangla, English, French, Hindi and Spanish.
With 250 million people speaking Portuguese either as a mother tongue or second language, having the Access Agriculture platform in Portuguese is an important milestone. About 211 million people speak the language in Brazil, but Portuguese is also an official language in six African countries: Angola, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe.
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Three new Projects/Initiatives on EcoAgtube
www.ecoagtube.org |
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EcoAgtube is hosting three new Projects/Initiatives:
3. The Foundation for Natural Livestock Farming (NLF) aims to promote food security, food quality and sustainable agriculture by reducing the use of antibiotics and other chemicals in livestock farming. Dear subscribers, if your Project relates to ecology and you want to create a Project/Initiative video page on EcoAgtube, please send your request with details (Project/Initiative name and description) to support@ecoagtube.org.
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| Call for young entrepreneurs in Niger |
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Access Agriculture announces the launch of its Young Entrepreneur Challenge Fund in the Diffa region of Niger. Apply now! Present key ideas of a business proposal using a smart projector and your ideas can become reality. Win a smart projector! After registering on Access Agriculture website, you can access the form to submit your proposal.
Concern Worldwide Project au Niger:
Cliquez ici pour plus de détails / Postuler en ligne
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Young Ugandan entrepreneurs get
hands-on experience with digital tools |
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Seven young entrepreneurs belonging to four teams from Uganda participated in a hands-on learning course to familiarise themselves with the solar-powered smart projector kit that they had won through the Access Agriculture Young Entrepreneur Challenge Fund initiative. The smart projector contains the entire library of Access Agriculture farmer-training videos in local and international languages and can be easily updated as new videos become available.
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| Most viewed videos in June |
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Bean leaves are rich in proteins and vitamins. To have them available during the dry season, you can dry and store them.
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Modern dairy plants buy fresh milk from local farmers and herders to make into many different products.
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| Stop erosion |
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When farmers have limited access to arable land and soils are poor, limiting soil erosion can make the difference between harvesting a crop or nothing at all.
Soils are indeed at the core of any crop production system. Without a healthy soil, crops cannot thrive. While measuring the effect of soil erosion at national and global scales is almost impossible, all farmers see the difference when effective soil conservation techniques are in place.
Read more .... বাংলা | Français | हिंदी | Português | Español
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| Agriculture extension amidst Covid-19 |
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A Facebook Live Dialogue series has been launched to further engage with Access Agriculture Ambassadors, Entrepreneurs for Rural Access (ERAs) and other local partners and stimulate discussion on issues relating to Access Agriculture activities. The first live dialogue was held on 7 July 2021 on the theme ‘Agriculture extension amidst Covid-19.’
Click here to watch the Live Dialogue video.
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| Anthra and Acccess Agriculture |
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A poster titled ‘Leveraging video to share proven indigenous animal health knowledge and practices across the Global South’ by Access Agriculture was exhibited at the 11th Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Meeting of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock (GASL), 7-11 June 2021.
The poster highlights Access Agriculture videos on herbal medicine in animal healthcare and partnership with ‘ Anthra,’ an NGO working towards sustainable livestock production systems. Click here to see the poster.
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| Aakanksha Tiwari |
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Aakanksha Tiwari holds a master’s degree in Environmental Science (Environmental Technology) from the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, India. She worked as a research intern at National Institute of Agriculture Extension Management, Hyderabad, and currently works as a researcher with the Environment and Climate Action team at Citizen Consumer and Civic Action Group in Chennai. She is also a member of the committee of South Asian People’s Action on Climate Crisis (SAPACC) at Hyderabad. As an Access Agriculture Ambassador, Tiwari would like to engage the innovative farmers all over India to capture and share videos of their organic efforts to grow healthy food based on indigenous methods and their self-created tools and techniques.
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